MD3004:03
Preventive Medicine and Addiction Studies
| Townsville | HECS Band 3 |
13 hours lectures, 39 hours guided learning sessions, 13 hours synthesising sessions. Full year.
This subject will cover the National Health Priority Targets and the major addictions. Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention strategies will be studied to enable students to develop health prevention plans. Disease prevention methodologies will be studied. Students will gain an understanding of addiction theory and methods of managing a dependency. Students will be taught communication skills in motivational counselling.
Learning Objectives:
- understand the range of preventive strategies and methodologies commonly utilised in medical practice, including primary, secondary and tertiary prevention;
- adopt personal disease prevention strategies and principle of infection control;
- understand the physiology and psychology of dependency;
- demonstrate communication skills appropriate to dependency, in roleplay situations;
- view the role of change agent as a valid medical role and appreciate the barriers to behaviour change faced by individuals.
Assessment by end-of-year integrated examination which will consist of a written component (67%) and a practical component (33%). Students will also be required to undertake informal on-course assessment tasks.